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As a teenager, he was drawn towards films by his class teacher. Born to a professor father, he did his schooling at Methodist Central College and St. Mahendra was born on into a Sri Lankan Tamil family in the village Amirthakali near Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.

2.3 Mainstream cinema and tryst with art film genre.

Following a brief phase of poor health, Mahendra died of cardiac arrest in February 2014. During the tail end of his career, he established a film school in Chennai, which offers courses in cinematography, direction and acting.

Along with Bharathiraja and Mahendran, he is regarded as a trendsetter in Tamil cinema. Since then, he directed over 20 films in a span of 36 years. Upon completion of his diploma, he entered Malayalam cinema as a cinematographer in the early 1970s.Īfter working in over 20 films as a cinematographer, Mahendra made his directorial debut in 1977 with the Kannada film Kokila. In 1966, he moved to India and gained admission to the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) to pursue a course in motion picture photography. He graduated from the London University and started his career as a draughtsman with the Sri Lankan Government. After witnessing the shoot of David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) during a school trip in Sri Lanka, he was drawn towards filmmaking. Mahendran developed a passion for photography and literature at a young age. He was the recipient of six National Film Awards (including two for Best Cinematography), five Filmfare Awards South and several state government awards. Widely regarded as an auteur, Mahendra usually scripted and edited his films apart from shooting them. Ahileshwari (m.1963-2014) (Until his death)īalanathan Benjamin Mahendran ( – 13 February 2014), commonly known as Balu Mahendra, was a Sri Lankan born Indian cinematographer, director, screenwriter and film editor who worked predominantly in Tamil cinema.

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